First Isabela Cooperative Bank

The primordial objective for its establishment was to provide financing to farmers and small entrepreneurs who have limited resources and access to banking services.In compliance with the provisions of the said laws, FICOBank obtained CDA's confirmation of its registration, as a cooperative bank.A branch in Dupax del Sur, the first operating unit of the bank in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, was also opened in the same year.Few years later, two field offices in Diffun, Quirino and Aurora, Isabela were opened, and two more branches in the municipalities of Paniqui and Concepcion in Tarlac were inaugurated.Field offices in San Mateo, Ilagan City, Echague, Tumauini and Cabagan—all in Isabela—and in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya were opened, one after the other.The bank also opened one branch each in the municipalities of Dinalupihan and Orani in Bataan, and Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija, all in Region III.Later on, five more branches were opened in Cauayan (Isabela), Baliwag (Bulacan), and San Jose City, Rizal and Zaragoza (all in Nueva Ecija).